Mid-Year Update Grades 1-4

Here are some photos of work done by children in Terms One and Two this year. This is some pattern work done by the grade ones using lots of odds and ends in the art room. The designs were photographed for display then dismantled.

Mid-Year Update - Grade 5/6

The grade 5 and 6 children enjoyed making masks with Modroc this semester. After applying the plaster impregnated bandages to a face mask mould additions were added with crumpled newspaper and magic paper clay. Dried masks were decorated with paint and all manner of materials to create quite a range of creatures and characters.

Welcome to the Art Room 2011

Greetings to all Parents and friends!

Welcome to the Art Room for 2011.

This is a big year for us as the Art Show will be held late in Term 3. Planning is already underway to make this a special event with added twists to make it new and different.

Don't forget to pop into the art room when you are passing to see the work the children are doing. Some of the Grade Six students are currently exploring the features of modroc to make masks and planning their elaborate decorations. Others are using oil pastels to illustrate birds in their natural environment. The students in Grades Three and Four have finished their God's Eyes and Dream Catchers, which were a great hit, and also begun a project involving drawing birds in different poses. The Grade Ones and Twos have completed a mixed media illustration of a scene from the Mr McGee stories and featured castles in a picture designed to tell a story. Our new Preps have been using paint and hand prints to make a range of interesting and colourful animals and insects.

Attached is a photo of last year's Story Poles. Ideas for this year's Memory Trail art work are being developed! The other photo is of a God's Eye.

Thank you very much to all the parents who have donated items to the art room and to the people who have offered to come in and help. Ms Sawada and I love to have an extra adult to help out so we hope to see you soon.

Anne Duke and Etsuka Sawada

Memory Trail Opening

The Memory Trail opening is being held on Monday 13th December 2010 at 2.30pm.

Art Room 2010

Here are a few photos of what's been going on in the art room in first term. The Prep's used crayon and paint to make their own version of the famous painting, "Regatta at Cowes". The children in grades 3-6 learned about the Archibald Prize for portraiture and used pencil to draw their own portraits. They also explored the use of oil pastels in creating pictures of the trees in the school yard.

The children in grades 1 and 2 had fun with Ms Sawada, turning their finger prints into cute characters and used painting techniques to create different plants and flowers.

Memory Trail Opening

The clay tiles making up the Memory Trail art installation for 2009 were officially unveiled last week. Many thanks to the buildings and grounds committe, especially Greg Hallinan, Peter Gilpin and Paul Savy who constructed the frames, grouted the tiles and mounted the whole mural. I think the finished art work looks fantastic and will be a wonderful lasting contribution to our school by our exiting grade six students.

Now on to planning for next year!

The Art Show is Over!

I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the art show on Thursday night. We had a great turn out pretty good weather for the event. I would like to sincerely thank the team of parents who worked so hard to put up the displays, and Suryati Dzulzalani who put many hours into helping my husband and I take it all down again! Thanks also to all the fabulous staff members and parents who manned the bbq and bars, snow cone machine and raffle and donation tables, and looked after the multi media displays and entertainment stage on the night, to make this another successful and enjoyable SNPS event. A special thank you to Annette Sax and Sofie Xinopolous for their excellent Artist in Schools display and felting demonstration. Well done all! Hard work, but worth it when you see how much the children and parents enjoy this social occasion .

Here are a few pictures of the art work on display. I took some photos of people on the night but these will be displayed at school rather than on the net.

Only two years until the next show!

Cheers!

Anne Duke